Innovative Care Environments for People with Dementia

Chair(s)

• HV

  Hilde Verbeek, Prof. Dr.

  Professor
  Health Services Research
  Maastricht University
  Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

Co-Chair(s)

• 

  Bram de Boer, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Health Services Research
  Maastricht University
  Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

Discussant(s)

• MB

  Marie Boltz, PhD, GNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN

  Professor
  Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing
  Penn State
  State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Individual Symposium Abstract First Author(s)

• 

  Bram de Boer, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Health Services Research
  Maastricht University
  Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• 

  Ingeborg Pedersen, PhD

  Associate professor
  Department of Public Health Science
  Norwegian University of Life Sciences
  Ås, Akershus, Norway
• 

  Karin Wolf-Ostermann, PhD

  Professor
  Institute of Public Health and Nursing Sciences
  University of Bremen
  Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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  Katharina Rosteius, M.Sc.

  Health Economics
  Department of Health Services Research
  University of Cologne
  Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

As part of the ongoing culture movement within long-term care several innovative care concepts for people with dementia are developing. These concepts radically change their physical, social and/or organizational environment in order to align care services with needs and demands of people with dementia, and providing meaningful activities. The current symposium will discuss the effects and possible working mechanisms of innovative caring environments for people with dementia across three European countries and the US. The symposium will start with a presentation describing the Homestead care model in the Netherlands, which is a care model that was developed following a co-creation study focused on translating scientific knowledge on nursing home care environments into practice. This is followed by three presentations about the effects of three types of innovative care environments for people with dementia: (1) farm based day care in Norway, (2) shared housing arrangements in Germany, (3) green care farms providing 24-hour nursing care in the Netherlands. The three studies on the effects of innovative care environments present a variety of designs (case study, cluster randomized controlled multi-center intervention study, and a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews) to study the effects on various outcomes (activities, physical effort, social interaction, mood, the number of hospital admissions for people with dementia, quality of life, challenging behavior, risk of falls, stabilization of cognitive abilities, daily life). The symposium will conclude with a reflection on these innovative care concepts from a US perspective.

Presentations:

• 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET

  Translating Science into Practice to Develop an Innovative Dementia Care Model: The Homestead Care Model
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Bram de Boer, PhD – Maastricht University
• 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET

  Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary: Experiences of Providing Farm-Based Daycare for People with Dementia
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Ingeborg Pedersen, PhD – Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET

  Risk Reduction of Hospital Admissions for People with Dementia in Shared-Housing Arrangements: The DemWG Study
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Karin Wolf-Ostermann, PhD – University of Bremen
• 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET

  How Do Green Care Farms for People Living with Dementia Successfully Integrate Outdoor Spaces?
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Katharina Rosteius, M.Sc. – University of Cologne